Photo by:TODD SUMLIN Publication:The Charlotte Observer Place: 1st First Place Category: Features Month: May 5/24/2010 Sixth graders, Ashley Cosby, left, and Brittany Burkhard do research on a laptop in a replica of Anne Frank's room at The Community School of Davidson Monday morning. The 6th grade class created a Holocaust museum as a culminating project to their Holocaust unit study. The middle school has been transformed into a memorable museum that opens to the public Wednesday May 26.
"Historically, the 6th grade Holocaust unit has proved to be life-changing for these students," said Connie Wessner, who leads service learning programs at the school. "The knowledge and compassion each student embraces during this walk through time is poignantly displayed throughout the museum."
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Sadly no, we're not kidding. The life of photographer Dorothea Lange has been set to music. "Things As They Are" makes its world premiere at the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival at the Theater at St. Clement's on West 46th Street on September 27th. It's a "musical examination of an artist's journey as complex as the history captured in her work," producers say. Audio clips are on their Web site, decide for yourself.
Photojournalist Adam Ferguson, documenting Marines in Afghanistan's Wardak Province, was faced with covering the accidental mortar death of a teenage girl killed in a Marine attack. As someone who has decided to cover war, the conflicts posed by the circumstances were tremendous. "You have a sense of loyalty to them [the Marines], and you have to reconcile that in relation to your integrity as a journalist." Ferguson tells LENS that as much as it is his job to engage emotionally, it's also his job to record history.
Photojournalist J. Kyle Keener was seeing double. Literally. NPPA member Keener was commissioned to photograph Twin Days at the International Twin Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, for National Geographic Magazine Online. His gallery of twins is now on the Web.
In Salt Lake City, 43 percent of the workforce at The Deseret News got pink slips: 57 full-time and 28 part-time employees were let go, including at least half the photo staff. Yet some will stay on to help with the transition as the print newsroom combines with KSL-TV5 and KSL Newsradio staff "to create the largest newsroom in the Intermountain West."
Los Angeles Times staff photojournalist Rick Loomis is embedded with troops in Afghanistan. Again. It's his ninth tour of the war there with his cameras. He estimates it adds up to about two years of his life so far. And that's not including his time in Iraq. In the Times' new blog Framework, Loomis paints a picture of American troops and the war, from tribal elders to roadside bombs to the soldiers' daily grind, with the experienced eye of a battle veteran and the photographic soul of an artist.
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